Lonny Buinis

A Compact Biography

I saw the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" on its first release.
I wondered, "Do things in outer space really look like that?"
I painted with oils, then acrylics.
I was told you can't put acrylic paint in an airbrush.
I did.
When the way to record animation was taping it one frame at a time,
I played it live from RAM.
Since then, more technology happened and greatly changed our perception of astronomical subjects.
Now, I like to make them move.

• Born
  • About 32.18% of the way between a Life magazine editor's comment that the figures in Bonestell's artwork showing humans on Saturn's moon Mimas were "put in merely to give scale" and the moment when humans first walked on the Moon.
    
• Lonny Buinis Observatory at UACNJ
• dedicated April, 2016
  
• Employment
  • self
  • Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ
    • 2021 retired
    • 1995 Instructional Designer, Office of Instructional Technology
    • 1990 Assistant Director of Planetarium
  • Trailside Nature and Science Center, Mountainside, NJ
    • 1982 Director of Planetarium
• Education
  • Formal: Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
    • 1974 B.S. Physics
    • 1976 M.S. Computer Science
  • Informal:
    • 1972 space art
    • 1976 airbrush painting
    • 1990 digital graphics
    • 1992 3-D modeling and animation
    • 1996 Web design
    • 1997 Learning Management Systems (WebCT, Blackboard CE, WebStudy, Canvas)
    • 2006 Virtual Reality objects
    • 2017 video editing
    • 2018 eBook publication
    • 2019 Science Fiction
    • 2022 eCommerce
    • 2024 Blender physics plugins
• Hobbies
  • clarinet, tenor saxophone
  • numismatics
  • walking, jogging, bicycling
  • spelunking
  • health/nutrition
    • "FAMOUS CHEW"
      Fiber/Family/Friends, Antioxidants, Minerals, Omega oils+, Ubiquinol, Sleep,
      Collagen/Creativity/Curiosity, Hyaluronic acid/Humor, Exercise, Water
  • poetry
  • globes
  • history of astronomy
• Favorite Colors
  • Venetian red
  • wine (bordeaux, vinous, vinaceous)
  • vermilion
  • maroon
  • Rose
  • Burgundy
• Space Artists who inspired me
  • 1960's Chesley Bonestell
  • 1968 David Hardy
  • 1969 Don Dixon
  • 1970 Ludek Pesek
  • 1972 Don Davis
  • 1977 Ron Miller
  • 1980 Pamela Lee and William Hartmann
  • 2016 Lucy West
  • 2022 Pat Rawlings

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